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Items from IARU Region 3 Mon­i­tor­ing Sys­tem Newslet­ter may be freely copied for pub­li­ca­tion by mem­ber Soci­eties of the Inter­na­tion­al Ama­teur Radio Union (IARU).

Any Nation­al soci­ety of IARU Region 3, can receive on request, an iden­ti­fi­ca­tion tape of the dif­fer­ent modes of sig­nals from Region­al MS Coor­di­na­tor.

A gener­ic intrud­er noti­fi­ca­tion form and asso­ciate note are devel­oped. The form is based on the stan­dard ITU report of inter­fer­ence or ill-reg­u­lar­i­ty from oth­er ser­vices. Mem­ber soci­eties can use the form to sub­mit to their respec­tive admin­is­tra­tions (Jan­u­ary 31st, 2021).


Ref­er­ence Doc­u­ments: (fol­low­ing two documents)


Here is a DATABASE of all reports received by R3 MS for the peri­od 2006 through August 2009 com­plete, plus Sep­tem­ber 2009 incom­plete, in a tab-delim­it­ed text for­mat (ZIP 112 KB)

And a DATABASE of clus­ter spots of intrud­ers from July 2006 through Sep­tem­ber 2009, in a tab-delim­it­ed text for­mat (ZIP 84 kB)

2023

Decem­ber 2023
Novem­ber 2023
Octo­ber 2023
Sep­tem­ber 2023
August        2023
July             2023
June            2023 r3ms-2023–06
May             2023 r3ms-2023–05
April            2023 r3ms-2023–04
March         2023 r3ms-2023–03
Feb­ru­ary 2023 r3ms-2023–02
Jan­u­ary 2023 r3ms-2023–01

2022

Decem­ber 2022 r3ms-2022–12
Novem­ber 2022 r3ms-2022–11
Octo­ber 2022 r3ms-2022–10
Sep­tem­ber 2022 r3ms-2022–09
August         2022 r3ms-2022–08
July              2022 r3ms-2022–07
June             2022 r3ms-2020–06
May              2022 r3ms-2022–05
April             2022 r3ms-2022–04 rev
March          2022 r3ms-2022–03
Feb­ru­ary 2022 r3ms-2022–02
Jan­u­ary 2022

2021

Decem­ber 2021 r3ms-2021–12
Novem­ber 2021 r3ms-2021–11
Octo­ber 2021 r3ms-2021–10
Sep­tem­ber 2021 r3ms-2021–09
August 2021 r3ms-2021–08
July 2021 r3ms-2021–07
June 2021 r3ms-2021–06
May 2021 r3ms-2021–05
April 2021 r3ms-2021–04
March 2021 r3ms-2021–03
Feb­ru­ary 2021 r3ms-2021–02
Jan­u­ary 2021 r3ms-2021–01

2020

Decem­ber 2020 r3ms-2020–12
Novem­ber 2020 r3ms-2020–11
Octo­ber 2020 r3ms-2020–10
Sep­tem­ber 2020 r3ms-2020–09
August 2020 r3ms-2020–08 (rev.1)
July 2020 r3ms-2020–07
June 2020 r3ms-2020–06
May 2020 r3ms-2020–05
April 2020 r3ms-2020–04
March 2020 r3ms-2020–03
Feb­ru­ary 2020 r3ms-2020–02
Jan­u­ary 2020 r3ms-2020–01

2019

Decem­ber 2019 r3ms-2019–12
Novem­ber 2019 r3ms-2019–11
Octo­ber 2019 r3ms-2019–10
Sep­tem­ber 2019 r3ms-2019–09
August 2019 r3ms-2019–08
July 2019 r3ms-2019–07
June 2019 r3ms-2019–06
May 2019 r3ms-2019–05
April 2019 r3ms-2019–04
March 2019 r3ms-2019–03
Feb­ru­ary 2019 r3ms-2019–02
Jan­u­ary 2019 r3ms-2019–01

2018

Decem­ber 2018 r3ms-2018–12
Novem­ber 2018 r3ms-2018–11
Octo­ber 2018 r3ms-2018–10
Sep­tem­ber 2018 r3ms-2018–09
August 2018 r3ms-2018–08
July 2018 r3ms-2018–07
June 2018 r3ms-2018–06
May 2018 r3ms-2018–05
April 2018 r3ms-2018–04
March 2018 r3ms-2018–03
Feb­ru­ary 2018 r3ms-2018–02
Jan­u­ary 2018 r3ms-2018–01

2017

Decem­ber 2017 r3ms-2017–12
Novem­ber 2017 r3ms-2017–11
Octo­ber 2017 r3ms-2017–10
Sep­tem­ber 2017 r3ms-2017–09
August 2017 r3ms-2017–08
July 2017 r3ms-2017–07
June 2017 r3ms-2017–06
May 2017 r3ms-2017–05
April 2017 r3ms-2017–04
March 2017 r3ms-2017–03
Feb­ru­ary 2017 r3ms-2017–02
Jan­u­ary 2017 r3ms-2017–01

2016

Decem­ber 2016 r3ms-2016–12
Novem­ber 2016 r3ms-2016–11
Octo­ber 2016 r3ms-2016–10
Sep­tem­ber 2016 r3ms-2016–09
August 2016 r3ms-2016–08
July 2016 r3ms-2016–07
June 2016 r3ms-2016–06
May 2016 r3ms-2016–05
April 2016 r3ms-2016–04
March 2016 r3ms-2016–03
Feb­ru­ary 2016 r3ms-2016–02
Jan­u­ary 2016 r3ms-2016–01

2105

Decem­ber 2015 r3ms-2015–12
Novem­ber 2015 r3ms-2015–11
Octo­ber 2015 r3ms-2015–10
Sep­tem­ber 2015 r3ms-2015–09
August 2015 r3ms-2015–08
July 2015 r3ms-2015–07
June 2015 r3ms-2015–06
May 2015 r3ms-2015–05
April 2015 r3ms-2015–04
March 2015 r3ms-2015–03
Feb­ru­ary 2015 r3ms-2015–02
Jan­u­ary 2015 r3ms-2015–01

2014

Decem­ber 2014 r3ms-2014–12
Novem­ber 2014 r3ms-2014–11
Octo­ber 2014 r3ms-2014–10
Sep­tem­ber 2014 r3ms-2014–09
August 2014 r3ms-2014–08
July 2014 r3ms-2014–07
June 2014 r3ms-2014–06
May 2014 r3ms-2014–05
April 2014 r3ms-2014–04
March 2014 r3ms-2014–03
Feb­ru­ary 2014 r3ms-2014–02
Jan­u­ary 2014 r3ms-2014–01

2013

Decem­ber 2013 r3ms-2013–12
Novem­ber 2013 r3ms-2013–11
Octo­ber 2013 r3ms-2013–10
Sep­tem­ber 2013 r3ms-2013–09
August 2013 r3ms-2013–08
July 2013 r3ms-2013–07
June 2013 r3ms-2013–06
May 2013 r3ms-2013–05
April 2013 r3ms-2013–04
March 2013 r3ms-2013–03
Feb­ru­ary 2013 r3ms-2013–02
Jan­u­ary 2013 r3ms-2013–01

2012

Decem­ber 2012 r3ms-2012–12
Novem­ber 2012 r3ms-2012–11
Octo­ber 2012 r3ms-2012–10
Sep­tem­ber 2012 r3ms-2012–09
August 2012 r3ms-2012–08
July 2012 r3ms-2012–07
June 2012 r3ms-2012–06
May 2012 r3ms-2012–05
April 2012 r3ms-2012–04
March 2012 r3ms-2012–03
Feb­ru­ary 2012 r3ms-2012–02
Jan­u­ary 2012 r3ms-2012–01 

2011

Decem­ber 2011 r3ms-2011–12
Novem­ber 2011 r3ms-2011–11
Octo­ber 2011 r3ms-2011–10
Sep­tem­ber 2011 r3ms-2011–09
August 2011 r3ms-2011–08
July 2011 r3ms-2011–07
June 2011 r3ms-2011–06
May 2011 r3ms-2011–05
April 2011 r3ms-2011–04
March 2011 r3ms-2011–03
Feb­ru­ary 2011 r3ms-2011–02
Jan­u­ary 2011 r3ms-2011–01

2010

Decem­ber 2010 r3ms-2010–12
Novem­ber 2010 r3ms-2010–11
Octo­ber 2010 r3ms-2010–10
Sep­tem­ber 2010 r3ms-2010–09
July 2010 r3ms-2010–07
June 2010 r3ms-2010–06
May 2010 r3ms-2010–05
April 2010 r3ms-2010–04
March 2010 r3ms-2010–03
Feb­ru­ary 2010 r3ms-2010–02
Jan­u­ary 2010 r3ms-2010–01

2009

Decem­ber 2009 r3ms-2009–12
Novem­ber 2009 r3ms-2009–11
Octo­ber 2009 r3ms-2009–10
Sep­tem­ber 2009 r3ms-2009–09int
August 2009 r3ms-2009–08
July 2009 r3ms-2009–07
June 2009 r3ms-2009–06
May 2009 r3ms-2009–05
April 2009 r3ms-2009–04
March 2009  r3ms-2009–03rev1
Feb­ru­ary 2009 r3ms-2009–02rev1
Jan­u­ary 2009 r3ms-2009–01rev1

2008

Decem­ber 2008 r3ms-2008–12
Novem­ber 2008 r3ms-2008–11rev1
Octo­ber 2008 r3ms-2008–10rev1
Sep­tem­ber 2008 r3ms-2008–09rev1
August 2008 r3ms-2008–08rev1
July 2008 r3ms-2008–07rev1
June 2008 r3ms-2008–06
May 2008 r3ms-2008–05
April 2008 r3ms-2008–04
March 2008 r3ms-2008–03
Feb­ru­ary 2008 r3ms-2008–02
Jan­u­ary 2008 r3ms-2008–01

2007

Decem­ber 2007 r3ms-2007–12
Novem­ber 2007 r3ms-2007–11
Octo­ber 2007 r3ms-2007–10
Sep­tem­ber 2007
August 2007 r3ms-2007–08
July 2007 r3ms-2007–07
June 2007 r3ms-2007–06rev1
May 2007 r3ms-2007–05
April 2007 r3ms-2007–04
March 2007 r3ms-2007–03
Feb­ru­ary 2007 r3ms-2007–02rev1
Jan­u­ary 2007 r3ms-2007–01

2006

Decem­ber 2006 r3ms-2006–12rev2
Novem­ber 2006 r3ms-2006–11rev1
Octo­ber 2006 r3ms-2006–10rev1
Sep­tem­ber 2006 r3ms-2006–09rev1
August 2006 r3ms-2006–08rev2
July 2006  r3ms-2006–07rev1
VU2UR Report Soci­ety Reports
June 2006 ms-2006–07  ms-2006–06ms-2006–06NZART
May 2006 ms-2006–06 ms-2006–05ms-2006–05ARSI&NZART
April 2006 ms-2006–05 ms-2006–04
March 2006 ms-2006–04 ms-2006–03ms-2006–03NZARTms-2006–03RAST_OTHRms-2006–03RAST

ms-2006–03WIA

Feb­ru­ary 2006 ms-2006–02ms-2006–02WIA
Jan­u­ary 2006 ms-2006–02 ms-2006–01    

2005

VU2UR ReportSoci­ety ReportsDecem­ber 2005ms-2006–01ms-2005–12

ms-2005–12RAST

Novem­ber 2005ms-2005–12ms-2005–11

ms-2005–11RAST-PIX

ms-2005–11RAST

Octo­ber 2005ms-2005–11ms-2005–10

ms-2005–10RAST

Sep­tem­ber 2005ms-2005–10ms-2005–09

ms-2005–09ARSI

August 2005ms-2005–09ms-2005–08July 2005ms-2005–08ms-2005–07

ms-2005–07RAST-IARUHF

June 2005ms-2005–07ms-2005–06

ms-2005–06NZART

May 2005ms-2005–06ms-2005–05April 2005ms-2005–05ms-2005–04March 2005ms-2005–04ms-2005–03Feb­ru­ary 2005ms-2005–03ms-2005–02 ms-2005–02RASTJan­u­ary 2005ms-2005–02ms-2005–01 ms-2005–01RAST

2004

VU2UR Report Soci­ety Reports
Decem­ber 2004 ms-2005–01 ms-2004–12ms-2004–12RAST
Novem­ber 2004 ms-2004–12 ms-2004–11ms-2004–11RAST
Octo­ber 2004 ms-2004–11 ms-2004–10ms-2004–10RAST
Sep­tem­ber 2004 ms-2004–10 ms-2004–09ms-2004–09datams-2004–09RAST
August 2004 ms-2004–09 ms-2004–08-05datams-2004–08
July 2004 ms-2004–08 ms-2004–07
June 2004 ms-2004–07 ms-2004–06
May 2004 ms-2004–06 ms-2004–05
March 2004 ms-2004–04 ms-2004–03
Feb­ru­ary 2004 ms-2004–03 ms-2004–02
Jan­u­ary 2004 ms-2004–02 ms-2004–01ms-2004–01data

2003

VU2UR ReportSoci­ety ReportsDecem­ber 2003ms-2004–01ms-2003–12data

ms-2003–12

Novem­ber 2003
ms-2003–11data

ms-2003–11

Octo­ber 2003ms-2003–11ms-2003–10data

ms-2003–10

Sep­tem­ber 2003ms-2003–10ms-2003–09August 2003ms-2003–09ms-2003–08

ms-2003–08data

July 2003ms-2003–08ms-2003–07June 2003
ms-2003–06May 2003ms-2003–06ms-2003–05April 2003
ms-2003–04March 2003ms-2003–04ms-2003–03Feb­ru­ary 2003

Jan­u­ary 2003

The repeat­ed appeals for orga­niz­ing Mon­i­tor­ing Sys­tems in every Nation­al Soci­ety of the Region, is show­ing results. RAST — Thai­land and HARTS — Hong Kong are the lat­est Soci­eties to join us. HARTS have nom­i­nat­ed their Mon­i­tor­ing Sys­tems Coor­di­na­tor. He is OM Keiren VR2BXM, whio is expect­ed to be feed­ing infor­ma­tion of inter­est from his area. We look for­ward to RAST nom­i­na­tion of a suit­able candidate.
This month also the pic­ture points to the var­i­ous har­mon­ics, spu­ri­ous and fun­damn­tal Broad­cast­ing chan­nels used by Radio Pyongyang, DPR-Korea; Indone­sian and Chi­nese intru­sions affect­ed Aus­tralia and New Zealand has “Havana Gur­gle” and the Sea State radar-CODAR and many data sta­tions on var­i­ous ama­teur frequencies.
Con­tin­u­ing the top­ic of long range cord­less tele­phone QRM in India, fur­ther reports received are repro­duced for gen­er­al reference.

ms-2003–01    ms-2003–01data

2002

Decem­ber 2002

This month, I digress from HF intru­sions and go to the top­ic of VHF QRM, not touched so far in the edi­to­r­i­al. While the sit­u­a­tion of VHF QRM by Long Dis­tance Cord­less Tele­phones of Chi­nese Make, is still bad all over the dif­fer­ent cities in India, a typ­i­cal case from a city like Chen­nai, that is Madras, is open for the author­i­ties to see and take the nec­es­sary action. If the ama­teurs in all the Indi­an cities, join togeth­er and pro­duce such lists, iden­ti­fy and edu­cate peo­ple in dis­suad­ing the use of such equip­ment, it is yeo­man ser­vice to ama­teur fraternity.
I am repro­duc­ing the list of fre­quen­cies of Long dis­tance Cord­less Tele­phone QRM, as care­ful­ly mon­i­tored and sub­mit­ted by the Madras Ama­teurs in a group, name­ly: VU3VTK OM Ganesh, VU2DPN OM Dheep­an, VU2SBB OM Sam­ba­si­vam, VU3USI OM Christy and VU2ZNS OM Swamy. This group has formed clear aims:

ms-2002–12 ms-2002–12

Novem­ber 2002

OM Ronald Roden G4GKO/4X8RR, the Region­al Coor­di­na­tor of Region 1 has retired. His numer­ous con­tacts with oth­er Organ­i­sa­tions, the friend­ly guid­ance he was giv­ing to all new com­ers, the tact of his han­dling cas­es of intru­sions, his sub­tle humour and the innu­mer­able oth­er help­ing qual­i­ties, have been a strong source of inspi­ra­tion to all the mon­i­tor­ing sys­tem coor­di­na­tors. We wish him and his XYL, a very good retired life from this field of fight­ing against the intru­sions into ama­teur radio frequencies.
The new com­er tak­ing his place to guide Region 1, through, is OM Hani Raad OD5TE of Beirut, Lebanon. He is an Elec­tri­cal Engi­neer with over 20 years of expe­ri­ence in ama­teur radio. We wish the new incum­bent, all the best in his new chair, and offer our coop­er­a­tion at all times.
The fun­da­men­tal on 3560 kHz and the oth­er spu­ri­ous prod­ucts of Radio Pyongyang, DPR-Korea, on oth­er fre­quen­cy bands, are being heard even now and the Havana Gur­gle on 18090 kHz has almost become a mark­er on the 17 mb for sta­tions down-under. The results that might have come from the com­plaints that have been lodged in the spec­i­fied pro­for­ma to IARU R3 HQ, are NOT vis­i­ble in any less­en­ing of the spu­ri­ous emis­sions from DPR-Korea.

ms-2002–11

Octo­ber 2002

This month also, we have innu­mer­able reports on Indone­sians, the data sta­tions and the reg­u­lar Havana gur­gle from Cuba, CODAR sea state Radar, the sev­er­al mul­ti chan­nel data sta­tions, the usu­al fun­da­men­tal and the sev­er­al harmonics/spurious prod­ucts from radio Pyongyang are con­tin­u­ing unabat­ed. Unless, all pos­si­ble pres­sure is brought on the known intrud­ers, the con­di­tion con­tin­ues to remain bad and may tend to wors­en if we fail to com­plain and fol­low-up with reminders.
This months newslet­ter car­ries the three month­ly reports from JARL, which were long pend­ing and the read­ers can assim­i­late the sta­tis­tics from the JA area.
In the Newslet­ter of IARU Region 2, of Octo­ber 2002, the Region­al Mon­i­tor­ing sys­tems Coor­di­na­tor OM Mar­tin Pot­ter, VE3OAT, has brought out in the most clear and lucid style, the need for a Mon­i­tor­ing sys­tem in every Nation­al Soci­ety. I want to share it with all of you, as it is very bad­ly required imme­di­ate­ly in many of the Nation­al Soci­eties of Region 3.

ms-2002–10

Sep­tem­ber 2002

The Indone­sian non-ama­teur activ­i­ty being so much on the 40, 30,20 metre bands and the inac­tion of the Gov­ern­ment con­cerned, is indeed caus­ing a seri­ous con­cern. The mat­ter is so often report­ed that we feel hurt to repeat again and again.
In addi­tion to these non-ama­teurs, there is a def­i­nite increase in the num­ber of fre­quen­cies used by the fish­ing trawlers on the high seas, with their ama­teur radio equip­ment, instead of the Marine com­mu­ni­ca­tion equip­ment, which they are sup­posed to have. Sri Lankan and Indi­an boats are often heard using many of our fre­quen­cies. The Aus­tralian reports indi­cate that Chi­nese boats are like wise caus­ing con­cern. The pres­ence of many data sta­tions with mul­ti chan­nel high speed data traf­fic with the lat­est modes of com­mu­ni­ca­tions are anoth­er cause of our worries.
Long range cord­less tele­phone users are con­tin­u­ing car­ing none for the inter­fer­ence they are caus­ing to oth­er services.

ms-2002–09

August 2002

This Region has the max­i­mum reports cov­er­ing Indone­sian non ama­teurs using our fre­quen­cies in 40,20 and 10 metre bands. There is absolute­ly no con­trol over their work­ing and exis­tence by the local Gov­ern­ment. It is very dif­fi­cult for the licenced Indone­sian ama­teurs to find a clear fre­quen­cy in the low­er edges of 40mb for their autho­rized com­mu­ni­ca­tions. Gen­er­al­ly the licenced Indone­sians are around 7050,7055 and 7060 kHz for their traf­fic. 7050 kHz fre­quen­cy, car­ries CW lessons for the intend­ing future ama­teurs. Oth­er­wise, the licenced ones, oper­ate in their own nets and you can clear­ly iden­ti­fy their call signs in between, as per stan­dard prac­tice, though the entire con­ver­sa­tions are in Indonesian.
The oth­er fre­quen­cy reg­u­lar­ly used by a SE Asian group for two-way non ama­teur com­mu­ni­ca­tions is 14044 J3Eu mode around 0100 UTC every day. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, we need the ser­vices of those of you know­ing SE Asian lan­guages to iden­ti­fy them. It is not from INS or THA. May be from XV, 3W or XU area. We request all the SE Asian ama­teurs to watch out this fre­quen­cy and iden­ti­fy the users.

ms-2002–08

July 2002

The pres­ence of Indone­sian non ama­teur groups on the var­i­ous ama­teur band fre­quen­cies in the 40 and 20 metre bands is caus­ing the most severe con­ceren for all the ama­teurs of Region 3 and the world over. While they use ama­teur radio fre­quen­cies for their reg­u­lar com­mu­ni­ca­tions, you will nev­er miss the many calls for the Prayers and the many jokes and the Kook­abur­ra pat­tern of laugh­ing with old men and young ladies togeth­er. The 40 metre band has sev­er­al chan­nels of 5 kHz inter­vals from the low­er edge and these sta­tions have their breed­ing grounds here. They grad­u­ate to oth­er fre­quen­cies and move to 20 metre band, where they are on either sides of the Inter­na­tion­al Bea­con fre­quen­cy of 14100 kHz. None of us in Region 3, can mon­i­tor any NCDXF/IARU bea­cons on this fre­quen­cy. This QRM from Indone­sians are being report­ed month after month, and unfor­tu­nate­ly, noth­ing is happening.

ms-2002–07

June 2002

There is a report­ed increase in the num­ber of non ama­teur sta­tions from Indone­sia and Chi­na, as can be seen from the Aus­tralian report. While the con­di­tions of prop­a­ga­tion show an improve­ment, the increase is there, all over the oth­er areas of region 3, as well. The increase of the Fish­ing Trawler traf­fic with the eas­i­ly avail­able ama­teur equip­ment, which can be con­ve­nient­ly fit­ted and used on the vacant ama­teur fre­quen­cies, is pro­nounced. As there is no law cov­er­ing the sell­er of the equip­ment to sell ama­teur radio equip­ment only the bonafide ama­teur users, in the SE Asian coun­tries, the use has become the order of the day.

ms-2002–06

May 2002

The Region­al Mon­i­tor­ing Sys­tems Coor­di­na­tor hearti­ly con­grat­u­lates Chair­man Fred John­son ZL2AMJ, of IARU Region 3, on his receiv­ing Queen’s Birth­day Hon­ours. It is an hon­our to Ama­teur Radio, Region 3 and New Zealand. The oth­er per­son from New Zealand, who was hon­oured long ago, was late Arthur Cushen of Inver­cargill who was con­nect­ed with Short Wave Lis­ten­ing and DX Pro­gramme-Broad­cast­ing, both of which were known the world-over, to all the SWLs and Broad­cast­ing Sta­tions. The scene in Region 3, going strong with the var­i­ous pirate groups from Indone­sia, the many Fish­ing Trawlers from Sri Lan­ka and India, tak­ing to ama­teur radio bands includ­ing WARC bands, is indeed alarm­ing. We are not see­ing any action tak­en by the Admin­is­tra­tions of the coun­tries con­cerned, but an occa­sion­al Ama­teur chal­leng­ing these sta­tions. All the Nation­al Soci­eties are request­ed to take up with their respec­tive Admin­is­tra­tions when­ev­er they are find­ing such reports in these columns, so that the pres­sure is put for our legal use of ama­teur radio frequencies.

ms-2002–05

April 2002

This months report from Aus­tralian Area main­ly deals with their ususal Chi­nese, Indone­sian non ama­teur traf­fic apart from the Har­mon­ic broad­casts from Pyongyang. Oth­er sta­tions report­ed include those of the data traf­fic with VFTs, and hun­dreds of CB type trans­mis­sions from Chi­nese speak­ing stations.

ms-2002–04

March 2002

On a ref­er­ence to OM Chen BA1HAM, regard­ing the 3rd Har­mon­ic sig­nals received on 18105 kHz, from the Yun Nan B/S, with its fun­da­men­tal on 6035 kHz, OM Chen took keen inter­est to inter­act with the broad­cast­er. There appears to be some action tak­en, may be in the form of changes in the equip­ment or feed line or anten­na, and the results are show­ing and we have not heard the har­mon­ic for the past month or so. We thank OM Chen for the excel­lent work he has done to solve the prob­lem by direct inter­ac­tion with the Broad­cast­er in China.

ms-2002–03

Feb­ru­ary 2002

In the last week of Jan­u­ary 2002 and ear­ly Feb­ru­ary 2002, BBC Cyprus relay trans­mit­ters on 7165 and 7320 kHz pro­duced an inter­mod­u­la­tion prod­uct (2x7165-7320) on 7010 kHz. This was logged from about 0100 UTC with Hin­di, Urdu and Pash­to upto about 0230 UTC, all over India. The 40mb CW por­tion was affect­ed and many South Indi­an ama­teurs sent direct com­plaints to the Region­al MS Coor­di­na­tor. Work­ing with­in the Terms of Ref­er­ence, the Region­al Coor­di­na­tor had request­ed OM Ron Roden, the MS Coor­di­na­tor of Region 1 and Mr K.C.Selvadurai, 9V1UV, Direc­tor IARU Region 3, to help using the good offices of their con­tacts. In the mean time, quite a num­ber of com­plaints went direct to BBC through E‑mails. All these result­ed in the prob­lem get­ting solved very ear­ly by the BBC author­i­ties. The Region­al MS Coor­di­na­tor wish­es to thank all those who helped and empha­sise again that the prop­er con­tacts with a Broad­cast­er can solve the prob­lems very early.

ms-2002–02

Jan­u­ary 2002

A NEW YEAR’S MESSAGE
From the Pres­i­dent of IARU to Bob Knowles, ZL1BAD, IARUMS, Inter­na­tion­al Coordinator.
Dear Bob:
As anoth­er year draws to a close I am remind­ed of how much the Ama­teur Radio com­mu­ni­ty owes to the ded­i­cat­ed vol­un­teers who work with you in the IARU Mon­i­tor­ing Sys­tem. It is easy to become dis­cour­aged in what seems to be a nev­er-end­ing bat­tle, par­tic­u­lar­ly as we face a world­wide pro­lif­er­a­tion of unli­censed HF oper­a­tions. Still, we should stop to con­sid­er what our bands would be like if there were no orga­nized effort against intrud­ers. For exam­ple, when you com­pare the lev­el of out-of-band broad­cast­ing in the fixed ser­vice bands to that in the ama­teur bands it is easy to see that our efforts do pay off. Even the unli­censed oper­a­tors are more like­ly to oper­ate out­side our bands than inside; it has become such a prob­lem for the mar­itime and aero­nau­ti­cal mobile ser­vices that the issue is on the agen­da for WRC-03. It is unlike­ly that the con­fer­ence will find a solu­tion that is as effec­tive for those ser­vices as the IARUMS has proved to be for the ama­teur service.

ms-2002–01

2001

Decem­ber 2001

Hearty wel­come to the Pit­cairn Island Ama­teur Radio Asso­ci­a­tion (PIARA) to the Mon­i­tor­ing Sys­tems Group of Region 3. We wish to hear PIARA nom­i­nat­ing one of their active ama­teurs for Mon­i­tor­ing Sys­tems work, so that Region 3, has the advan­tage of hav­ing the obser­va­tions from the area, so close to Region 2. Reports from Aus­tralia and new Zealand say about the sig­nals from Quang Zou trans­mit­ter from Main­land Chi­na on 18085 kHz. And the Indi­an sub con­ti­nent expe­ri­ences the 3rd har­mon­ic sig­nals from Yun­nan B/S on 18105 kHz. The num­ber of Indone­sian pirate oper­a­tions are con­tin­u­ing unabat­ed on var­i­ous fre­quen­cies in the 40 and 20 metre bands. The data trans­mit­ting sta­tions occu­py­ing about 4 kHz band­width are also report­ed from VK/ZL area. The har­mon­ics of DPR-Korea is still con­tin­u­ing on var­i­ous fre­quen­cies of the 20mb, espe­cial­ly the 5th har­mon­ic from 2850 KHz on 14250 kHz, dai­ly, in the VK region

ms-2001–12

Novem­ber 2001

The IARUMS Region 3, hearti­ly wel­comes OM Hen­ry Ander­s­son VK8HA of WIA, OM Toshiyu­ki Kon­do, JR1NVU, of JARL. VoA was heard in Eng­lish on 14215 kHz from 1700 to 1800 UTC in New Zealand and areas of region 2. The R2 MS Coor­di­na­tor OM Mar­tin, con­tact­ed the con­cerned in the VoA, and the prob­lem has been solved.

ms-2001–11

Octo­ber 2001

The sit­u­a­tion in Region 3, con­tin­ues to be both­ered by the sev­er­al har­mon­ics from DPR-Korea, the var­i­ous oth­er VFTs on many bands, the oth­er reg­u­lar broad­cast­ers (except VoSharia, which has gone off 7085 kHz now) and the reduced activ­i­ty of the jump­ing jam­mers on the 40 mb fre­quen­cies. The spu­ri­ous “Chris­t­ian Voice” radio sig­nals on 21420 kHz fre­quent­ly report­ed by VK8HA from Dar­win area, gets high­light­ed this month, as it was heard as far away as in New Zealand too. The Mon­i­tor­ing Coor­di­na­tors are con­tact­ing the con­cerned broad­cast­er for solv­ing this problem.

ms-2001–10

Sep­tem­ber 2001

All the mem­bers of Mon­i­tor­ing Sys­tems of Region 3 offer our heart­felt con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly mem­bers of those killed in the attack on World Trade Tow­ers, and to those fam­i­lies of Offi­cers of Police and Fire ser­vices of New York, who lost their lives while help­ing in the search and res­cue of the vic­tims. We high­ly appre­ci­ate our Amer­i­can brethren ama­teur radio oper­a­tors, who have been man­ag­ing the Dis­as­ter Communications.

ms-2001–09

August 2001

The log­gings for the month of July 2001, has the fol­low­ing items in com­mon as report­ed from Aus­tralia. DPR Korea‑R. Pyongyang: 3560 kHz; 1000 to 2100 UTC. Bea­cons C and S from Rus­sia: 7039 kHz. 24 Hrs. DPR Korea‑R Pyongyang harmonics/spurious: 14000.8,14025,14100,14155,14240,14250,14280 kHz; var­i­ous times. Wide band pulse trans­mis­sions: 24950 to 24990 kHz ; <0200 to> 1500Hrs The pat­tern now is slight­ly dif­fer­ent and seems to peak around 24996.5 kHz With two close­ly spaced puls­es. The jam­mer from Cuba: 18090 kHz.

ms-2001–08

July 2001

The broad­cast sta­tions and their har­mon­ics, the VFTs, the wobble/bubble/jumping jam­mers, and the many uniden­ti­fied South East Asian non ama­teur net­works are the ones who are find­ing reg­u­lar men­tions in these columns. The Voice of Broad Mass­es from Eritrea with a strong sig­nal on 7100 kHz; Voice of Sharia on 7087 kHz(variable) from Afghanistan; the Voice of Mujahideen on approx. 7070 kHz; the Viet­namese and Chi­nese broad­casts from Yun­nan Broad­cast­ing ser­vice, Chi­na, on 3x6035 kHz are the reg­u­lar ones.

ms-2001–07

May 2001

The 12metre puls­es report­ed between 24900 and 25000 kHz, are report­ed by OM Bert PA3GIO, as CODAR- wide band pulse type trans­mis­sions for mea­sur­ing var­i­ous things like the height of waves at sea. It may indi­rect­ly mean that sur­veil­lance of the high seas can now be made, for any sail­ing ves­sels, friend, foe or con­tra­band car­ri­ers. These wide band puls­es heard Region 3, and report­ed some time back, are con­firmed to be orig­i­nat­ing from Aus­tralia, as a mil­i­tary exper­i­men­tal exercise.

ms-2001–05

April 2001

The activ­i­ty of the month of March 2001, was no dif­fer­ent to the ear­li­er ones. The only change was the vari­a­tion in the prop­a­ga­tion con­di­tions for the onset of Sum­mer and solar activ­i­ty which was very pro­nounced. The har­mon­ics, spu­ri­ous prod­ucts report­ed on many fre­quen­cies con­tin­ued along with the data sta­tions, jam­mers and oth­ers as report­ed by the dif­fer­ent Societies.

ms-2001–04

March 2001

The 20 metre ama­teur radio band is a wide stage for every kind of broad­cast spurious/harmonics to be not­ed on a reg­u­lar basis, most­ly com­ing from Far East­ern Region and Indone­sia. Japan­ese Mon­i­tors have been report­ing DPR-Korea on 14025,14080,14100,14125,14129,14155,14250 and 14280 kHz. Mon­i­tors from Australia/New Zealand report Chi­nese trans­mis­sions on 14210, DPR-Korea on 14220 and 14280 KHz.

ms-2001–03

Feb­ru­ary 2001

The num­ber of reports of fish­ing trawlers using the var­i­ous ama­teur radio fre­quen­cies is on the rise. We had heard the trawlers from Japan using the 80 metre band fre­quen­cies in the past. Now, the things have changed to the worse. We hear very reg­u­lar use of the 20 metre band fre­quen­cies by the Indi­an fish­ing trawlers belong­ing to Andhra Pradesh who keep com­mu­ni­cat­ing in Tel­ugu and Eng­lish at times.

ms-2001–02

Jan­u­ary 2001

The win­ter con­di­tions have giv­en good prop­a­ga­tion and recep­tion of fun­da­men­tals, har­mon­ics and spu­ri­ous sig­nals from Broad­cast­ers. Thus, those fre­quen­cies and coun­tries fre­quent­ly report­ed in these columns have been heard pos­i­tive­ly again. The very strong sig­nals from Iran on 7070 kHz in the morn­ings and evenings are spo­radic and pecu­liar­ly car­ry the jam­mer sig­nals on the same fre­quen­cy. The fre­quent­ly iden­ti­fied word being ‘mujaahideen’.

ms-2001–01

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